Do you speak English fluently?

Many English students think about speaking English fluently, their only goal is to speak English fluently.

But today, I'm not going to give you tips to speak English fluently, I'm going to take an information from you:

it's true that English students are different, so why are you here on my blog?

Are you here because you want to speak English fluently?

Are you here because you already speak English fluently and you're looking for more tips to "improve" you English level?

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Tips on How to Learn English Effectively

Do you want to know how to learn English effectively? If so, you are not alone. In fact, there are many people out there today who are working to learn English as a second language. No matter what the reason is that you are learning English, you want to make sure that you can learn it quickly and effectively as well. Whether you are learning English in a class, on your own, or with language teaching software, there are certain things that you can do to make sure that you learn the language effectively. So, here are a few tips to keep in mind that will help you on your journey towards learning the English language.

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great tips to learn English effectively

1-Move in with an English-speaking roommate

2-Date an English-speaking person:

3-Smile. No matter what people are saying: just smile. People will feel good talking to you and in time you may be able to catch a word or two. Remember: Adjust your smile to their mood to avoid detection. If you see they are serious aim at a sort of melancholic smile. Also change your smile every so often unless you want to be taken for a retard.

4-Dump the classes.

They only help at a basic level you will never use in daily life. The first time you pick up a phone and you don’t understand a single word, you realize how much money you spent for nothing.

5-Read tons of crappy literature:

The crappier, the more useful it is in real life. Avoid 19th century British literature. Although brilliant, you may end up referring to your key as a skeleton key and describing people’s age as three and twenty. And believe me, people will laugh. My personal recommendation: chick lit. Americans for basic English; British ones for a touch of shallow chic vocabulary (where else would one learn the word ‘naf’?)

6-Question the knowledge you acquired in your home country:

No matter how many Latinos say it's correct, the word denankiu does not exist in English. Stay away from foreign friends if needed until you acquire a decent amount or REAL English words.

7-Do not even bother with the infamous ‘th”:

  unless you are a truly gifted linguist. If you are French, please, forget it even exists.

8-Don’t look for rules:

Most languages have pronunciation rules. English doesn’t. Don’t think that ‘u’ and ‘o’ together are pronounced as ‘uo’. The resulting sound may be ‘uu’ or ‘oo’ or ‘ou’ or just silent. Don’t complain, you got it easy on the verbs department.

9-Visualize: 

 To improve your pronunciation, imagine a crazy queen standing in the background enunciating, “The rain in Spain falls mainly in the plain.” DO NOT replace the queen with Eliza Doolittle, You may end up speaking with a cockney accent.

i hope this tips help you

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Three biggest challenges facing an English learner

© Tomasz P. Szynalski, Antimoon.com

1. Developing a passion for learning English

All English learners would like to speak English well. They are excited at the idea of being able to communicate in English fluently. However, they usually don't care about the learning process itself. For most learners, learning English is a duty — something that they have to, but don't want to do. They don't see pleasure in learning English.

In short, most learners would like to speak English well but don't like to be learning English. This is the first and biggest problem facing an English learner, because a person who doesn't like to learn English will not learn it well. If you don't love English, English won't love you back!

If you want to become a successful learner, you need to like the learning process itself. You need to treat time spent on English as time for pleasure and relaxation. For example, you need to enjoy:

• reading English sentences and thinking about their structure
• learning new words from a dictionary
• writing a correct English sentence by consulting dictionaries, grammar guides, and the Web
• practicing the pronunciation of English sounds and words

Ideally, learning English should be your hobby. You should think of yourself as an English Learner — a person who has chosen learning English as one of their favorite activities.

2. Making the first change to one's life

The decision to learn English requires changes in your life. For example, deciding that one will read a book in English for 30 minutes every day and keeping to that decision. It's very difficult to make a small, but permanent change to your life, especially if learning English doesn't seem "fun". However, learners should remember that studying English for 15 minutes every day gives you much better results than studying for a whole day once a month.

3. Making further changes to one's life

While the first change is the most difficult, each subsequent one is hard, too. A lot of learners take the first step (e.g. they start reading a book in English every day) and stop there. They do not engage in other English-building activities.

A good learner will have a set of activities (reading, watching TV, practicing pronunciation, listening to recordings, etc.) and choose from that set according to his or her mood. One activity is not good enough, because (1) you get bored more quickly, and (2) it gives you a range of language skills that is typically too narrow. For example, reading in English can't improve your pronunciation, although it can improve your grammar, vocabulary, reading comprehension, and writing skills.)

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How To Learn English!

Here are some tips which may help you to master the English Language

1-Speak without Fear

The biggest problem most people face in learning a new language is their own fear.  They worry that they won’t say things correctly or that they will look stupid so they don’t talk at all.  Don’t do this.  The fastest way to learn anything is to do it – again and again until you get it right.  Like anything, learning English requires practice.  Don’t let a little fear stop you from getting what you want. 

you can practice in this website www.speaking24.com

2- Use all of your Resources

 

Even if you study English at a language school it doesn’t mean you can’t learn outside of class.  Using as many different sources, methods and tools as possible, will allow you to learn faster.  There are many different ways you can improve your English, so don’t limit yourself to only one or two.  The internet is a fantastic resource for virtually anything, but for the language learner it's perfect. 

3-Surround Yourself with English

 

The absolute best way to learn English is to surround yourself with it.  Take notes in English, put English books around your room, listen to English language radio broadcasts, watch English news * bbc* , movies and television.  Speak English with your friends whenever you can. The more English material that you have around you, the faster you will learn and the more likely it is that you will begin “thinking in English.” 

4-Listen to Native Speakers as Much as Possible

 

There are some good English teachers that have had to learn English as a second language before they could teach it.  However, there are several  reasons why many of the best schools prefer to hire native English speakers. One of the reasons is that native speakers have a natural flow to their speech that students of English should try to imitate.  The closer ESL / EFL students can get to this rhythm or flow, the more convincing and comfortable they will become. 

5-Watch English Films and Television

 

This is not only a fun way to learn but it is also very effective.  By watching English films (especially those with English subtitles) you can expand your vocabulary and hear the flow of speech from the actors.  If you listen to the news you can also hear different accents. 

6-Listen to English Music

 

Music can be a very effective method of learning English.  In fact, it is often used as a way of improving comprehension.  The best way to learn though, is to get the lyrics (words) to the songs you are listening to and try to read them as the artist sings.  There are several good internet sites where one can find the words for most songs. This way you can practice your listening and reading at the same time.  And if you like to sing, fine.

7-Study As Often As Possible!

Only by studying things like grammar and vocabulary and doing exercises, can you really improve your knowledge of any language. 

take a look here www.tolearnenglish.com/

8-Do Exercises and Take Tests

Many people think that exercises and tests aren't much fun.  However, by completing exercises and taking tests you can really improve your English. One of the best reasons for doing lots of exercises and tests is that they give you a benchmark to compare your future results with.  Often, it is by comparing your score on a test you took yesterday with one you took a month or six months ago that you realize just how much you have learned.  If you never test yourself, you will never know how much you are progressing. Start now by doing some of the many exercises and tests on this site, and return in a few days to see what you've learned. Keep doing this and you really will make some progress with English.

http://www.tolearnenglish.com/

8-Record Yourself

 

Nobody likes to hear their own voice on tape but like tests, it is good to compare your tapes from time to time.  You may be so impressed with the progress you are making that you may not mind the sound of your voice as much.

9-Listen to English

 

By this, we mean, speak on the phone or listen to radio broadcasts, audiobooks or CDs in English. This is different than watching the television or films because you can’t see the person that is speaking to you.  Many learners of English say that speaking on the phone is one of the most difficult things that they do and the only way to improve is to practice.

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7 Steps toTo speak English fluently

To speak English fluently, you should know as many vocabulary as possible. Every English students knows this, but the problem is that they don't use the right method to learn more vocabulary, most students take a dictionary and start to memorize words randomly, which has no meaning!!

I wrote these simple steps just for you. If you follow them, you will learn more vocabulary in a short time: 

1) choose a theme:

This is the first step, you should select which theme do you want to learn vocabulary in, for example you can choose food, transport, ...This is very powerful because whenever you remember one English word, you will also remember all the other words you found with it.

I advice you to choose a subject you need its vocabulary, for example if you are a business man you can choose a theme related to business...

2) Use images, you remember English words faster:

The idea of images is an old idea, but it still works. It is also used with native children speakers.
I've already talked about children and learning English in this article some tips to speak enflish  and also in many others.

3) Write English phrases:

Generally we talk about writing new English words, but here I'm talking about writing English phrases which contains new English words. If you find a new word, write the whole phrase it is in. Many English students have a huge vocabulary in their mind but they don't know how to use this vocabulary because they just wrote word lists in their notebooks. So, you should write English phrases to do two things in one.

4) Pick up related English words:

What does it mean? well this means when you find a new word, try to find groups of words that come with it. It is also called word trees. For example, if your word is hotel, you can add "room, bed..."
This is very easy, if you chose a theme as I said.

5) English words with the same root:

This is also very powerful, and very easy but you can skip it if you don't know or you don't find words.
It consists of finding other English words that have the same root (noun, adjective, verb...)
For example: to travel-->traveling--> traveler-->...

6) Use the new English words:

If you think that having phrases with new words written in your notebook is enough, you're completely wrong!
you should use the new words you found, you should practice with your English friends (here is the best way to practice English: speak english with native speakers

7) Review New English vocabulary constantly:

If you don't review the new vocabulary you learned, it's the same as if you've done nothing!
Reviewing is so much important, The learning method is composed by: understanding, learning, reviewing. If you delete one of them, it will become a big problem (maybe you will never speak English if you do it!!!)

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